paraphrase The Man He Killed BY THOMAS HARDY "Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin!
"But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place.
"I shot him dead because — Because he was my foe, Just so: my foe of course he was; That's clear enough; although
"He thought he'd 'list, perhaps, Off-hand like — just as I — Was out of work — had sold his traps — No other reason why.
"Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown." paraphrase On My First Daughter BY BEN JONSON Here lies, to each her parents’ ruth, Mary, the daughter of their youth; Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due, It makes the father less to rue. At six months’ end she parted hence With safety of her innocence; Whose soul heaven’s queen, whose name she bears, In comfort of her mother’s tears, Hath placed amongst her virgin-train: Where, while that severed doth remain, This grave partakes the fleshly birth; Which cover lightly, gentle earth! paraphrase Hope BY LISEL MUELLER
It hovers in dark corners before the lights are turned on, it shakes sleep from its eyes and drops from mushroom gills, it explodes in the starry heads of dandelions turned sages, it sticks to the wings of green angels that sail from the tops of maples.
It sprouts in each occluded eye of the many-eyed potato, it lives in each earthworm segment surviving cruelty, it is the motion that runs from the eyes to the tail of a dog, it is the mouth that inflates the lungs of the child that has just been born.
It is the singular gift we cannot destroy in ourselves, the argument that refutes death, the genius that invents the future, all we know of God.
It is the serum which makes us swear not to betray one another; it is in this poem, trying to speak. Homework – Chapter 11
Read WRITING A PARAPHRASE OF A POEM (p. 665-667)
Do a paraphrase for each of the attached poems
For “On My First Daughter,” by Ben Jonson (p. 658) do a paraphrase (on the sheet provided), and then respond to the steps in “How to Read a Poem”, and answer questions following the poem (in notebooks)
Homework – Chapter 11
Read WRITING A PARAPHRASE OF A POEM (p. 665-667)
Do a paraphrase for each of the attached poems
For “On My First Daughter,” by Ben Jonson (p. 658) do a paraphrase (on the sheet provided), and then respond to the steps in “How to Read a Poem”, and answer questions following the poem (in notebooks)